After U.S. State Department officials raised the issue with Ibrahim, she initially said her account was hacked, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency said Saturday.

Ibrahim subsequently said her refusal to repudiate the tweets prompted the State Department to withdraw the award.

I refused to apologize to the Zionist lobby in America on the previous statements hostile to Zionism under pressure from the American government, so the prize was withdrawn, a posting on her Twitter account read.

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